 O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.  Bell's Edition - Sivu 191tekijä(t) John Bell - 1800Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sivua
...thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. 0 rould 1 flow like thre, | G u n ! Iho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull : Strong without rage, without o'erflowcing full.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 sivua
...bear a rigorous inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden has commended them, almost every wntrt for a century past has imitated, are generally known...make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull j Strung without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 sivua
...thine only curse; Secure then of thy merit, thou didst hate That servile base dependence upon Fate ; O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 sivua
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, while his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream my great example, as it is my theme; tbo' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 sivua
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, while his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream my great example, as it is my theme; tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. /Jeav'n... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 sivua
...thine onlj curse; Secure then of thy merit, thou didst hate That servile base dependence upon Fate ; O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great examples as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; . Strong, without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 sivua
...generally known : * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremout ;" Jnxl by Pope, ia hit " Windsor Forest." H. " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentlu, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | E. Polehamton - 1815 - 470 sivua
...III. I> So that to us no thing , nit place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull} Strong without rage, without o'erftowing full.... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 472 sivua
...So that to us no thinf, no place is strangr, While his fair bosom i.- the world's exchange. O conld I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as- it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; thoBgh gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erfiowing full.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 sivua
...almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : " O could 1 flow like thec, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
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